PositiveBOMB\"The Far Field... an arresting debut novel by Bangalore-born Madhuri Vijay, captures Kashmir’s everyday horror with exhilarating, puissant prose ... by fine-tuning her attention to themes of intimacy, friendship, family loyalty, identity and community, Vijay avoids the reductive aesthetic of the privileged gaze ... Vijay has created a world of stripped-down joys, forever suspended in a maelstrom of beauty and terror, with characters whose lives hinge on the whims of ancient, inexorable hatreds between two scarred nations.\
